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</a><font size=3>V'Darashta VChakarta: Feeding Your Baby In A
Bathroom?<br><br>
Rav Aharon Yehuda HaLevi Grossman was asked (V'Darashta VChakarta 4:42:7)
if it is proper for nursing mother's who bring their infants to weddings
to nurse them in the bathroom, for the sake of tznius? <br><br>
The issur to bring food into a bathroom is not brought down anywhere in
the gemara or poskim. In fact the Ohr L'Tziyon even says that the
Ruach Ra in the bathroom is only in the toilet itself and not in the
whole room. The mekor for not bringing food into the bathroom is
from the Be'er Heitev (OC 3:2:2) who says that you may not speak while in
the bathroom and certainly nor eat. However in this case, says Rav
Grossman, there are four reasons to be Meikel. <br><br>
First, the infant is too young for chinuch to apply. Second, the
food does not go through the bathroom, as it goes straight from the
mother to the baby. Third, our bathrooms our not like the bathrooms
discussed in halacha, since the system we use keeps them clean from
unclean things. Last, because of the need for tznius there is
reason to be lenient.<br>
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